Re: Allow format 0000-0000-0000 in postgresql MAC parser

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Ali Akbar <the(dot)apaan(at)gmail(dot)com>, Herwin Weststrate <herwin(at)quarantainenet(dot)nl>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allow format 0000-0000-0000 in postgresql MAC parser
Date: 2014-10-21 20:21:42
Message-ID: 5446C056.50103@gmx.net
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On 10/17/14 6:37 PM, Ali Akbar wrote:
> On a side note, i'm noticing from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address, that there is three numbering
> namespace for MAC: MAC-48, EUI-48 and EUI-64. The last one is 64 bits
> long (8 bytes). Currently PostgreSQL's macaddr is only 6 bytes long.
> Should we change it to 8 bytes (not in this patch, of course)?

It looks like nothing current is actually using EUI-64, so probably not,
unless someone comes with an actual use case.

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